Chapter 81 Thank You

Long caravans, including grain convoys and salt convoys, are blocked at the ferry. The dart flags of each dart bureau and the flags of each brand were planted on the convoy to hunt against the wind, and the hissing of the animals added a sense of depression to the ferry. Accompanied by a long group of disaster victims, helping the old and the young, they were blocked at another entrance.

A middle-aged tax collector with a small beard and the word "tax" written in the white cloth ring in front of his chest shouted to the caravan:

"A hundred yuan for grain goods, one hundred and fifty yuan for salt goods, ninety yuan for cotton goods, line up, don't squeeze! Don't squeeze!"

Another young and strong tax collector roared hoarsely at the victims.

"Don't squeeze! Don't squeeze! Five articles for men and five articles for women and children! Pay the money quickly. I'll let you go when you pay!"

A man who looked like a shopkeeper at the caravan passage squeezed forward and shouted.

"Sir, why did it rise again? The grain goods were still fifty cents the day before yesterday. Why did it become a hundred cents so quickly?"

The tax collector rolled his eyes at him.

"The unseen master, but now the two palaces are hunting in the west, and the foreign devils still occupy the capital. The empress dowager and the emperor are in Xi'an. Naturally, they need to spend money. Who do you want to go? If you don't have filial piety, you should be a citizen of the Qing Dynasty and pay the money quickly, otherwise..."

With a roar, the tax collector pulled out half a knife, and the businessman who was only in the prestigation quickly took out some scattered silver and sent the evil official to cross the convoy.

As he was talking, he saw a few white sails on the Xiyu River. Looking at the white sails and the big ship, the tax collector smiled. What do tax collectors like most? I'm afraid they are looking at the big boats on the river.

"Xiao Liuzi, you guys, put on the boat with me..."

Before he finished speaking, he looked at the three ships with at least 600 sailboats coming down, and then pushed under the boatman's pole and leaned to the shore.

"Hey! This owner knows the rules!"

The tax collector said, and his face was much better-looking, at least he didn't have to go to the boat to pay a piece of tax. The boat was just a landing. As soon as the springboard was put on the ferry on the embankment, the tax collector stepped on the springboard with a knife and walked straight to the boat.

Fang Zizhou, who stood on the ship, saw the tax collector with a knife on the boat. He just raised the corners of his mouth and just ordered the boatman and employees.

"Hurry up and tidy up the cabin. It's going to be on in a while!"

There are at least a thousand disaster victims at that ferry. Maybe they can recruit hundreds of people today. Three boats go to Ma'anshan in Dangtu, and one boat goes to Fengtai.

"Jingxuan, Anyang, after you get off the ship, according to what we have decided on the ship, Jingxuan will take you to Fuyang, and Anyang will take people to Mengcheng and open a job site along the town. Everyone has to be optimistic about the funds."

After ordering the boat, Fang Zizhou was able to tell the employees of more than a dozen companies beside him. Whether it was Huainan or Ma'anshan, they needed a large number of workers. It was not enough to recruit disaster victims in the city, so the company asked them to go directly to northern Anhui to recruit workers. There were also two groups of people, one went to northern Jiangsu and the other to go. Further away, I went straight to Shandong.

"Do you have any breath? Who is the owner!"

As soon as the tax collector got on the boat, he shouted. When he saw the food in the cabin, he was happy. Now he must be able to enter a few taels of silver!

"Sir, the ship is hired by a small one!"

Fang Zizhou hugged his fist and said that he was a person's status. He didn't kneel when he saw the official, not to mention this small tax official.

"These four boats are all yours!"

"It was hired by an industrial company!" Fang Zizhou corrected it.

"I don't care what you do with the industrial company. Listen, one boat, four taels of tax and silver!"

The tax collector shouted and then took a look at the unsatisfied goods in the cabin. He couldn't help muttering in his heart whether the tax would be charged a little higher. Could it be that the ship came here to collect the goods!

"Your Majesty, Mr. Fang brought a boat here, not to do business, but to hire workers..."

"Oh! That's easy!"

The tax collectors who were still muttering looked at the people in their thirties and shouted when they were sorry.

"Ten articles for men, ten articles for women and children! Take it away when you pay the money! If you don't pay the money, don't blame me for smashing your boat. I'll pull you to prison at that time. Don't blame me for not reminding you!"

"Dog courage!"

The original and pleasant Fang Zizhou was angry when he heard this and scolded.

"The dog's eyes are boundless. Look at what this is!"

Before the man wanted to say the opposite, Fang Zizhou took out a copy of the governor's office from his sleeve.

"..."

At a glance at the official document, the originally arrogant tax collector was immediately dumbfounded and looked at the words that said, "Industrial companies recruit disaster victims in the north, in order to solve the difficulties of the government, the local government should not fake difficulties", but they looked unwilling.

"Hey! Sir, look, our master has a scholarly temper. Don't be surprised!"

Ma Yu, who was standing next to him, squeezed forward, took out some scattered silver from his pocket, and stuffed his hand into the tax collector's hand.

"This and that are right, this and that are right!"

The tax collector said, but his hand holding the silver did not loosen.

"Sir, of course, our company still wants this ferry to temporarily build a shed, which is easy to recruit people. In the future, we will look good. This little money is all the drinking money of the officials and their brothers! In the future, if you are next to our door, please take care of us!"

Ma Yu's words made the face of the tax collector with an extremely ugly face unfold, and he held a fist at Ma Yu.

"What you said, aren't you going to build a shed? It's right next to the dam! If you have anything to say, just say something!"

After saying that, the tax collector left the ship.

"Ma Yu, what are you doing?"

Ma Yu's behavior made Fang Zizhou unhappy for a while, and there was a matter of taking the company's money to buy through these evil officials.

"My official Fang, we are here to recruit workers, not to provoke anger. The king of hell is better, and the little ghost is difficult to deal with. This place is dozens of miles away from the county. There is a little scattered silver. Why not!"

Ma Yu said with a smile that the business of Fang Zizhoushu was too strong to be promising. As he spoke, Ma Yu stepped on the springboard and said hello to the tax collector on the shore, but he walked towards the pile of disaster victims with a gong in his hand.

When the boatman put up the table and there was a gong, Ma Yu shouted with the newly learned words from northern Anhui on the boat.

"Dian, folks! Everyone was in the disaster. We couldn't get through this day, so we wanted to escape from the wilderness. Our industrial company is now in Fengyang and Dangtu, under the order of the governor, driving two big mines. Today, we come here to recruit workers. One laborer works hard in the mine and can earn at least a hundred cents a day.

Boom, as soon as he said this, the disaster victims who had been crowded over there immediately surrounded him. He watched the tax collector look at this and quickly squeezed over with people. Although the tax collector was strong, he almost couldn't stand it. He quickly raised his whip and whipped it in anger.

"No top! Don't squeeze! Stand up for me! Let's line up, otherwise no one will think about it.

"Thank you!"

Seeing those disaster victims lined up under the whip of the tax collector, Ma Yu hugged his fist and said thank you.

"No thanks, no thanks!"

The tax collector seemed to ask again as if he were uncertain.

"Can I really earn a hundred cents a day to work at your place?"

"That's right, it can only be more, not less! Lord, please ask Lord to help me maintain it. In the evening, please invite the Lord and the brothers to drink!"

Ma Yu smiled and punched him, and then walked to the table. At this time, the table had begun to sign up for his name. The two were responsible for counting. The two checked the strong men there, just like buying big livestock in the cattle. First, they pinched the meat on their bodies tightly, and then checked their mouths. What the mine needed is labor that can work, right? It's those old, weak, sick and disabled.

"Are you looking for a job or buying a big animal!"

At this time, there was a sudden shout, but Ma Yu looked over. He saw a man who was much taller than others. Although his clothes were ragged, the body board and the pimples under his clothes were bulging.

Ma Yu smiled at the man and rushed to the words beside him.

"Liu Zimao! Give this strong man a name, his body is strong! A1!"

"I...I..."

The man was obviously stunned. He looked at the man in a blank way and couldn't speak for a moment.

"What's your name?"

After asking a question before and after the note, this person came to his senses.

"Dong Haotian!"

He is strong and famous. Although it is only one side, Ma Yu still wrote down the name in his heart.

However, everyone who fell in name was directly piled up on the shore. The boatman on the shore had already put up more than a dozen cauldrons. It was not only those who wrote down their names on the thin, but also their families were divided into a bowl of miscellaneous batter.

"Our host said that you and your family can go to the mine, and you can usually wash clothes and cook for you. As long as you work hard, you will be able to warm up your wife and children."

As soon as Fang Zizhou's words were said, there was a burst of gratitude on the edge of the dam, especially for those who were reluctant to disperse with their families on the shore to go to work. The family did not have to disperse.

"It's hard to leave your hometown, and it's hard to separate your family!"

Sitting in the carriage, he looked at the workers at the foot of the mountain who used broken wood, bamboo poles and mud to make a new home, and vomited eight words.

"Yes, you have done a good thing. If you have a home, those workers can't mess up. They must work in the mine steadily."

Xiao Yuren nodded and understood Chen Moran's intention.

"It's not just for this reason!"

Chen Moran smiled and pointed to several workers' villages planned in the distance. Although they were workers' villages, they were just open spaces. At that time, they were just a shack.

"You see, let them bring their families here, just dividing the workers into two groups. One group of them has a family and a house. Most of them are like this kind of people, and the other is a familyless person, this kind of person..."

With a mysterious smile, he pointed to his surroundings again.

"The mountains in this place are full of ups and downs. Let's not talk about whether there are bandits or something in this mountain. Hasn't someone already said that they are bumping wolves here? Whether he is a bandit or a wolf, although he doesn't hurt anyone now, there will always be a day when he hurts people, so I'm thinking about building a mine protection team. In the mine protection team, these people are used! Single..."

"The revolutionary will is the most resolute!"

Xiao Yiren smiled and said what he had learned from Chen Moran. Chen's splimp always had his utilitarians in everything he did.

Chen Moran smiled. Some things always have to be prepared for the worst.

"After those brick factories are built, when the factory and mine are built, several towns will be planned along the iron factory and around the branches for these workers to live in!"

I ignored Xiao Yiren's surprise, and Chen Moran continued to talk there.

"They all live in shacks now. I'm afraid they will live in this shack for more than a year. At that time, we will use the company to change the crowded and dirty situation of workers' living areas, and build some new Magang villages around the factory to make the workers' area clean, safe, and full of corporate culture, which can not only make workers People improve production efficiency and make these workers loyal to factories and companies. At the same time, it can also avoid the bad habits and good living environment that make workers contaminated, which will only prevent gambling and drugs from spreading here. The centricious force of workers will also be improved, and the idea of taking the factory as a home will be established accordingly, which can reduce costs and increase profits.

Chen Moran said so as the carriage walked.

"Yes, do you mean that the company pays to build a house for them?"

Xiao Yu was shocked. He would never believe that those workers would pay for the house by themselves.

"Of course not!"

Chen Moran shook his head. He would never do business at a loss.

"In the future, when building a house, running a community is not only a means for the company to attract people, but also a way for the company to increase profits. For example, in the future, the workers will pay 15 to 30 yuan a month. We will build the house and rent it to them. A house costs 2 to 6 yuan a month, which doesn't seem to be good, but then these workers Isn't the village all our property? The shops and vegetable farms here are all ours. The water they use also goes out of our water plant, uh-huh! In addition, the coking gas can be repaired and piped here, so that it can be used as waste and earn more money every month. You see, they work from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and finally we get the money from the left hand and back from the right hand. What is this called? That's what makes the best use of everything!"

Chen Moran, who seemed to be a little excited, ignored Xiao Yiren's surprise when he heard this. There was only one thing in his mind, which was to compress the cost of the enterprise and increase the profit of the enterprise as much as possible. Instead of letting others earn it, it was better to earn it first.

"After that, there will definitely be a salary increase, and there will be bonuses for more work. At that time, those workers must have some money left. Let's sell this house again, and we are used to living in it. Naturally, we don't want to leave. At that time, we will sell the house at the market price. The rent collected in those years is profit, and the house will be sold. However, it is still a profit. When the land price and house price go up in the future, those stores will naturally be in demand. The store will be rented to the outside world. This is the only one. I'll see what happens in a year. This Ma'anshan alone can also earn us hundreds of thousands of yuan, which is enough to build a steelmaking furnace.

"Yes! Yes, of course!"

Xiao Yiren shook his head and sighed, looking at Chen Moran's smooth forehead. He really wanted to open his skull to see what was in his brain and how he could always think of something that others couldn't think of.

"If you do this, I'm afraid that our workers' community has been built, that is, it looks bright outside, but it's empty inside. How many families can have any money left!"

"I can't say that. I haven't raised it. You know, we just want to maximize profits. Besides, the salary given by Chen Moran is not low. The iron factory and iron ore have been built, ranging from 15 yuan a month to 30 or 40 yuan a month. When the machinery factory is completed, my salary will be half times more than those in Shanghai. If the car factory is done, it will be a female sewing worker, and I will also pay 20 yuan. We not only hire them, but also help them solve the problem of food and accommodation. In the future, we will even provide entertainment venues and other facilities, and even schools and hospitals. These are all in the form of welfare. I'm not stupid!"

Chen Moran smiled. He knew that his behavior would definitely not be pleasing. This pursuit of profit maximization would be criticized even in later generations, and it was also unavoidable here.

"The wages are too low, so they can't afford to buy things, and the wages are very low. In the future, there will be endless strikes and so on. The workers have no money in their hands. In the future, who will we sell the things produced by our enterprises? In the future, the cars made in our automobile factories, although they are mainly sold to Europe and the United States in the first few years, but Come on? One day, I will sell it to those workers, but now!"

At this time, Chen Moran smiled coldly.

"People's hearts are not enough. We have to do everything step by step. If we raise their salary to 100 yuan at a time, not to mention that the company can't afford it, it's the company's burden. If they can't last for a few years, they will definitely feel that the salary is low. Maybe they will strike to increase their wages, so We have to raise their wages step by step, so that these workers in the future have a hope for tomorrow.

Xiao Yiren nodded and knew that Chen Moran was telling the truth, but he had some other concerns.

"However, all the workers here are procrastinating, and the salary is low. At that time, I'm afraid that they will not be loyal to the company, and they may even hate the company!"

"You don't have to worry about this. For those who are like this, we can take care of them in other places. For example, we can build a workers' welfare society, that is, our shops in these workers' villages, and then give those workers, according to their heads, according to the heads of their families, according to the differences of adults and children, like For grain, cloth, groceries, daily necessities and so on, it must be cheaper to buy with these vouchers, which are definitely cheaper than those in the market.

"Then you're going to suffer!"

Looking at Chen Moran playfully, Xiao Yuren said something.

"What's the loss?"

Shaking his head, Chen Moran categorically denied it.

"I'm not what they eat and what they use. They all point to purchase vouchers. Purchase vouchers are like discount coupons. Those workers take this discount coupon to buy things, which can be cheaper than the market price. At most, we sell them at cost price. Don't you know that everything has a wholesale price and retail price? But it's so cheap that they can be grateful,"

Naturally, Chen Moran, who is not complacent, will not say it. At that time, he will definitely say that this cheapness is supplemented by the silver taken out by Chen Moran! Don't do anything without profit! Chen Moran is not a businessman, but at least he knows this word. Li is the first knife. If you can't hold this knife well, others will hate you. If you take it well, others will only be ungrateful.

"Good man... I can't do it!"

Chen Moran sighed in his heart that it is difficult to be a person, it is even more difficult to be a good person, and it is easier to be a mortal!

(to be continued)